Countries
Bhutan
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Myanmar
Second Language
India
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Mon
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Myanmar Language Commission
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Thai Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9533
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3033
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Tangut
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
Tsip maza
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Laya
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
1,100.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
700.00440,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Intha
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Burma
How Many People Speak
130,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
45
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million43.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.50 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million33.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
dzongkha
birman
German Name
Dzongkha
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Bamar people
Origin
17th Century
1113 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Modern Burmese
Language Position
3143
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
mya
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
bur
ISO 639 3
dzo
mya
ISO 639 6
dzo
mya
Glottocode
nucl1307
sout3159
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating